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Growth in education spending slowed in 2009
- 05-26-2011
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By Winnie Hu and Robert Gebeloff/New York Times
The nation’s overall education spending grew at a slower pace in 2009 than at any other time in more than a decade, amid deepening state fiscal woes and flatter tax revenues, according to new census figures released Wednesday. Public school districts spent an average of $10,499 per student on elementary and secondary education in the 2009 fiscal year, up 2.3 percent from 2008. In contrast, spending rose by 6.1 percent and 5.8 percent in the two years before that. “I think they are responding to economic and political realities,” said Robert N. Lowry Jr., deputy director of the New York State Council of School Superintendents. “There’s been this recognition that times are different.” (more...)
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